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[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 3 points 40 minutes ago

I schooled another man about my wife's competence. A doctor's a doctor! - title of this as a moderately upvoted repost on reddit with mostly positive, supportive comments

Thank you to all the good men who defend their wives like DH did for me! We love you! - title of a less upvoted and commented on reddit repost the next day

OP: My husband's nazi coworker was blatantly sexist to me at a company dinner - "where do you live dumb cunt imma swat your house," "men are people too, not everything is nazis, feminist bitch" brigade, "why are you dividing the movement for equality" Civilized Discussion and Debate, redditcares messages in her inbox

[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 23 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

While hilarious...that's what's breed the rise of the shit show of anti-science. We can't just call morons morons anymore. They go back to truth social, find all the other morons and pretend like they know better.

We need to be better at explaining to people what their education equates to. If you stopped taking hard sciences when you graduated high school you don’t have a good to great understanding of those subjects rather you have the absolute basic understanding.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Pride of Ignorance. Its something we should bully out of people. Nobody should be so proud to be so dumb. Its fine to be dumb, but nobody should revel in it.

[–] polycrome@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

They shouldn't

Lorena Bobbit had it right

There is nothing admirable about letting a fascist rant about hate and nonsense, while the ape of a host goes “never thought of it that way, interesting” while legitimizing the nonsense

[–] Morph9@lemmy.zip 40 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lucky13@lemmy.world 46 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Try being a woman and talking to a mechanic or anybody working at an auto parts store.

[–] Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Legit, I've used why wife as a honest detector for mechanics, ended up finding a mechanic for life (he had the chance to quote us to replace half used brakes way too early and instead was honest and just blew the dust off for free, told us it wasn't necessary)

i was more successful selling cars to women than men and it was because I presumed the person who told me they looked into multiple cars and chose this line actually knew what they wanted in that car.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I recently did. I didn't realize she was a mechanic at first but it was a lovely conversation that touched heavily on being women in male dominated careers.

But yes I fully agree

[–] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Or try being a woman working at an autoparts store

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 hours ago

Owch. Yeah, that's hard mode.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

get me the clip of Joseph yelling at a primate scientist because she corrected him

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 48 points 8 hours ago
[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

Pharmaceuticals, generally.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 57 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

Joe Rogan, Shapiro, and j Peterson is what you called pseudo-intellectuals

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The problem with this world is that a lot of people enjoy EVERYTHING on a surface level.

I keep getting reminded of my "gamer" years when I played league of legends. When I started, I was clueless and bad. And I found a YouTube channel which made fun educational videos.

Initially I learned a lot but over time, I realized how bad the advice was at times, which changed my consumption of the content. At the end, the content didn't teach me anything and the suggestions of the creator seemed to be focused on messing with bad players and not actually playing good.

I started to watch better players and learned more from them.

To me, fans of these guys stopped at the first step. They want educational content but they don't actually want to learn and so don't actually think about the content and can't outgrow it.

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

To me the problem is content vs entertainment.

Joe Rogan has no content. He is not an expert, but somehow he is able to make the podcast, populated by morons, enjoyable by it's audience. So if a person has to choose between Rogan, with a pseudoscientist in it, or a PhD, which is extremely prepared but does not know how to present his knowledge (either overcomplicated for the general masses, or plain boring), 90% of the people will watch Rogan.

Going to your LoL: the most successful streamers where not the best players, but the pros who manage to keep the chat entertained.

Another example are university professors: the most knowledgeable are usually not the best teachers, because knowing a subject and presenting it are two completely different skill sets.

That's the sad reality of today online content

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Rogan, Peterson (and probably even Shapiro, I dunno) do give good info or advice once in awhile, but it's not anything that you couldn't get somewhere else without all of the baggage.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 minutes ago

I agree. E.g. Peterson published a self-help book that was successfully marketed to young man, unlike most self-help books. And most self-help books are very replacement and often kinda bad

They grew up being told the answer and these guys specialize in telling people “the answer”. The issue is they are frequently providing the wrong answer.

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